Riyadh Al-Retaj Private School

Parents in Jeddah looking for national-curriculum schooling for their children will find Riyadh Al-Retaj Private School in the An Naseem district. The school is co-educational, serving families across primary and secondary grades in the northern part of the city. Al Nasim is one of Jeddah's established residential areas, and the school draws most of its enrollment from households in the immediately surrounding neighborhoods. For families who prefer the Saudi national curriculum over an international pathway, co-educational national-curriculum schools offer a more limited set of options compared to their international counterparts, making school-specific factors like teaching quality and community fit particularly important in the selection process.

Annual fees start from SAR 12,000 per year. The school does not offer installment plans, so the full annual fee is paid as a single payment at the start of the academic year. Riyadh Al-Retaj is not currently accredited by the Ministry of Education — without that accreditation, transcripts may require additional steps if a family later moves the student into the national-system pipeline. A single parent review on record rates the school highly and describes it as one of the area's distinctive schools, though the published review count is too small to form a reliable signal on its own.